April 1, 2024
Rare Antique Vintage 1909 A.B. Dick Edison's Rotary Mimeograph No. 76 Duplicator
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THIS IS FOR A NICE RARE ANTIQUE A.B. DICK CO.,EDISON ROTARY MIMEOGRAPH NO. 76.PAT'D DATE IS MAY 25TH 1909.NO COVER NOT SURE IF IT CAME WITH ONE.ALL APPEARS HERE.OBJECTS GEARS MOVE/NO FROZE UP.ALL STICKERS AND METAL SIGNATURE BAR IS INTACT & IN FAIR SHAPE. EDISON ROTARY MIMEOGRAPH NO. 76 A.B. DICK CO. A.B. DICK COMPANY WAS FOUNDED IN 1884 IN CHICAGO ILLINOIS,BY A YOUNG MAN NAMED ALBERT BLAKE DICK.JACKSON BLVD.BUSINESS THEN WAS STILL PREDOMINANTLY DONE ON A HAND WRITTEN BASIS.BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SUCH MACHINE AS A MIMEOGRAPH.IT BECAME NECESSARY TO INVENT ONE.HOW THAT INVENTION COME ABOUT IS WELL DOCUMENTED AND SO IS THE FACT THAT THOMAS ALVA EDISONS IDEAS AND HIS "ELECTRIC PEN" WERE KEY IN THE AMALGAMATION OF CONCEPTS THAT DETERMINED THE FORM OF THE WORLDS FIRST DUPLICATOR THE "EDISON-DICK MIMEOGRAPH.THIS SIMPLE MACHINE CREATED AN INDUSTRY.A FEW YEARS AFTER 1876 THOMAS EXPERIMENTED WITH A FILE & WAXED WRAPPING PAPER.DICK DISCOVERED THE MIMEOGRAPH PROCESS.THE INVENTION INITIATED THE ERA OF MODERN PRINTED COMMUNICATIONS.FORMERLY DOCUMENTS WERE REPRODUCED BY THE HAND OF A SCRIBE.IN 1887 THE COMPANY RELEASED THE MODEL "0" FLATBED DUPLICATOR,WHICH SOLD FOR $12.IT WAS THE ORIGINAL EDISON MIMEOGRAPH AND THE COMPANYS FIRST COMMERCIAL PRODUCT.LATER THAT YEAR THE EDISON MIMEOGRAPH NO. 4 CAME OUT,WITH A NAME PLATE BEARING THE EDISON PAT. FROM
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